Scott Shafer kept putting off answering the question that had been asked to him three times.
“Is the lack of buzz right now (around Syracuse football) by design?”
The final question of the final media opportunity of spring football on March 31 and Shafer denied that one had even been asked.
“I’m still not hearing a question,” he said, and then said it again.
Shafer, SU’s head coach, had spent an entire spring season trying to instill a sense of positivity around a team coming off a dismal 3-9 campaign, but there lacked the same hard-nosed buzz — the kind where you say you want to put “the fear of God” in your opponents — from when Shafer’s Orange was winning games.